Elie pittet



(No Model.)

. E. PITTET.

WASH BOILER FOUNTAIN.

No. 256,731. Patented Apr. 18,1882.

' A W, l l INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIE PITTET, OF EAST NEW YORK, N. Y.

WASH-BOILER FOUNTAIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 256,731, dated April 18, 1882.

' Application filed January 9,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELIE PIITET, of East New York, in the county of Queensand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wash-Boiler Fountains, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in wash-boiler fountains of that class in which a tube rises from a hollow base and discharges water and steam forced up by the ebullition of the water in the base in a continuous flow over the clothes in the wash-boiler.

Theinvention consists of a wash-boiler fountain constructed ofa hollow base having a central channel, openings at each side of the central channel, and semicircular channels extending from the openings along the circumference of the base to the inner end of the central channel, the circumference of the base having a tapering interior projection and the base a discharge-tube communicating with the central channel.

In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical central section on line m 00, Fig. 3, of my improved wash boiler fountain as shown'in use. Fig. 2 is a top view; Fig.3, a bottom view, and Fig. 4. a vertical transverse seclion of the same on line 3 y, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In theillustrations, Arepresents the hollow base, and B the discharge-tube rising therefrom in the usual manner. The base A is made preferably of circular form, and provided in the circumference thereof with two openings, at, which are separated by a short solid portion, 1), of the circumference. From The circumference of the base Ais provided at the point where the circumferential channels c 0 meet the central channel, 01, with a tapering projection, 6, whereby the water is de flected' from the circumferential channels into the central channel. The area of the crosssection of the central channel is considerably smaller than the area of the circumferential channels combined, which has the result that the body of water in the base is forced in a uniform stream through the central channel, and then through a communicating opening, f, in the top of the central channel, which opening is near thesolid portion 1), into the discharge-tube, and through the same on the clothes in the wash-boiler. A continuous supply of boiling water is thus thrown upon the of said channel, independent semi-circumfer ential channels provided with independent openings and connected with the opposite end of said diametrical channel, and an interior tapering projection at the point of connection of the diametrical and semi-circumferential channels, all substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELIE PITTET.

Witnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, CARL KARP. 

